Latest Xorg update breaks my GUI

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 12:43:49 UTC 2008


2008/7/11 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
> Antonio M wrote:
>>
>> 2008/7/11 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
>>>
>>> I upgraded my system to the latest Xorg last night and after a reboot had
>>> a
>>> major problem.  This box is an F9 box (An older HP with intel graphics)
>>> connected to an HP vf52 flatpanel monitor.
>>>
>>> On reboot, the arrow and 'Fedora wait circle' appeared on the screen,
>>> then
>>> my screen went black, the arrow returned, ad infinitum.
>>>
>>> I initially thought the upgrade had broken the setup, so I rebooted into
>>> RL
>>> 3 and resetup the desktop config.  The card and monitor were detected
>>> correctly and the screen resolution was available and I selected it.
>>> (1024X768).  Still, on reboot, same problem.  X would start (presumably)
>>> and
>>> restart with no complete loading of the GUI.  I've looked in Xorg's log
>>> file, but don't see any error messages that might clue me in.
>>>
>>> Can someone else shed some light on this?
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Haney
>>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>>> ERC Broadband
>>> (828) 350-2415
>>>
>>> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>>>
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>>
>> See my post dated July 7: Latest updates break graphic start of Fedora
>> And see Bugzilla Bug 454055: Latest updates prevent graphic login
>>
>> Wellcome onboard!!!!
>
> Antonio, I've not yet tried starting X from RL 3 yet, I just did everything
> from the CLI in level 3.  I will however try that shortly. I'll also check
> the bug and add myself to it, since I don't want to have to explain to my
> kids how to change runlevels just yet.
>
>
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>
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>
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The solution is very easy: just downgrade to previous
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.i386 that you can can download from
original F9 repo (the basic I mean).....


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